San Diego Wildfires - Fires of Heaven ************* (Elidrath Renato)

Yeah.. there really isn't a high rate of anything here.

This was literally just a perfect combination of a dry year, a BIG high pressure center over Las Vegas, and a low pressure center southwest of San Diego creating VERY powerful Santa Ana wind conditions, which of course drops the humidity down to sub-5% levels. So you have kindling + high winds. All it takes is a spark, which we got both naturally (downed power lines) and not-so-naturally (arson), which set in motion this whole firestorm.

What upsets me more than anything is even after the lessons we learned 4 years ago, we still had pencil pushers holding up the fight because of some really dumb things. The best example of which was the Cal Fire people not letting military helicopter pilots drop water on the fires until they were 'certified' by Cal Fire. These guys land on support carriers in the middle of the worst oceanic storms imaginable, at night, in zero visibility, yet Cal Fire says they can't drop water on a simple target like a fire until they certify them in fire fighting.

In times of need.. you need to fight the disaster FIRST.. and then worry about the paperwork when it's all over. Sickens me to no end how this was mis-managed.. AGAIN.</div> <div> __________________
Elidroth Renato
Game Designer
Everquest
Sony Online Entertainment, LLC

"But there's no sense crying
over every mistake.
You just keep on trying
Til you run out of cake."

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